What now about KYTNVA? Didn't we think the National
Park Service screwed up (intentionally) in making the
arrow heading west? Now maybe it is the USGS who
screwed up in showing KYTN and KYVA as one striaght
line for the strech throught the tripoint.
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4054022.99955522&e=260619.99985219&datum=nad83
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12355
Also I am reattaching Mike's Photo of the TP. I
enhanced the colors/brightness a bit so the arrow is
even more evident.
--- aletheiak <
aletheiak@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> yes
> thanx
> & there are of course many slight divagations of the
> various state &
> county boundaries from the true blue ridge
> not only here around frfrwa
> the apparent starting place
> but all down the line
>
> & the 1824 survey separating these 2 maryland
> counties must have
> been just as much of a rationalization of the actual
> ridge line as
> the 1997 vawv survey is at & below mdvawv
>
> but funny that the usgs still hasnt gotten wind of
> this
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G.
> McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > At http://tinyurl.com/5jpd4 there is an 18-page
> PDF of a technical
> study of
> > water availability in the Monocacy River
> watershed, which lies
> east of the Blue
> > Ridge divide in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The
> second and third
> sentences of
> > the document state:
> >
> > "This drainage area includes significant portions
> of Frederick
> County, Maryland;
> > Carroll County, Maryland; and Adams County,
> Pennsylvania. It also
> includes a
> > small portion of Montgomery County, Maryland; a
> very small portion
> of Washington
> > County, Maryland; and Franklin County,
> Pennsylvania."
> >
> > That "very small portion of Washington County"
> proves that the
> > Frederick-Washington boundary must necessarily
> stray east of the
> actual drainage
> > divide. A watershed map on page 3 of the PDF
> shows such deviation
> at the
> > boundary's north end as it reaches its tripoint
> with
> Pennsylvania. This
> > probably somehow accounts for the discrepancy that
> you noted on
> the USGS map.
> >
> > Washington County was created from Frederick
> County in 1776, and
> their common
> > boundary was surveyed in 1824. Field notes of the
> survey are
> listed in the
> > on-line catalog of the Maryland State Archives.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 11:04 AM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] frederick md
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > fresh virgin multipoint today class a
> > >
>
http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.72417&lon=-77.47167
> > > where the mason dixon line crosses the blue
> ridge
> > > tho i only just realized they even do cross
> > > yikes
> > > at the interstate tricounty point of franklin
> county pennsylvania
> > > with frederick & washington counties of maryland
> > > aka frfrwa or mdpa3frfrwa or technically
> us2mdpa3frfrwa
> > > marked by a shiny round topped stone post in
> someones side yard
> > >
> > > & tho i cant tell whether the blue ridge itself
> may continue in
> the
> > > scramble of mountains still farther north from
> here
> > > this point does mark the northern limit of the
> use of the blue
> ridge
> > > as a state &or county boundary
> > >
> > > in fact frfrwa is exactly 1 tricounty point & 1
> state line north
> from
> > > mdvawv on the blue ridge
> > > & all very cleanly so
> > > seeing as the frwa county line completely
> transsects maryland
> along
> > > the blue ridge
> > >
> > > all of which you can see if you zoom out
> > >
> > > but if you zoom in
> > > you will find this topo is quite odd
> > > in showing the tripoint & the marker in 2
> different locations
> > >
> > > on the ground
> > > there is only an ordinary mdpa marker at the
> tripoint position
> shown
> > > on the topo
> > > but the true tripoint marker is the one shown
> about 50 yards
> farther
> > > east on the opposite side of the road
> > >
> > > marker 92 still farther east is a mason dixon
> milestone
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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